Stow v. Kimball’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1939 · most notably Preston & Stetson v. McMillan (1877), Barnard v. Barnard (1886)
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Turney v. Turney
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute has no such trifling meaning as that it is necessary to measure with chain or tape line, the distance from the judges’ bench to the printing office, to see which of two or more newspapers published at the county seat is the nearest. Any newspaper printed at that place answers the intention of the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Strode v. Wende
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.